· Private foundation
Vilter Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross | $8,000 |
| Tunnel To Towers Foundation | $6,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,500 |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee County | $5,250 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $5,000 |
| Bader Honor Flight | $5,000 |
| American Diabetes Association | $4,000 |
| Parkinsons Foundation | $4,000 |
| The Pettit Center - Schools on Ice | $3,700 |
| Wounded Warior Project | $3,500 |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $3,500 |
| Racine Toys for Tots | $3,500 |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $3,500 |
| Macular Degeneration Association | $3,500 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FHFaith Hope & Love Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +171%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +95%
- MJMILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN PAUL II CONGREGATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $3k
- WPWI Parkinson's Associationone grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
The wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…
The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue Education Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds Faith Hope & Love Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WCTC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE COUNTY PROJECT EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEART SCIENCE LTD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Baird Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Youth Foundation Inc · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vilter Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.